Torino: SATET, 1953. Staplebound. [32] pp., illustrations, wraps. 9.5 x 7 in. Cover price: “Lire 30.” Spine chipped. Foxing to rear cover. Tear on the right edge of the front cover. The first issue of the Italian anti-communist comic book. The main character is introduced as a former partisan during..... More

Cat.No: 298639

New York: Exposition Press, 1965. Hardcover. 113p., very good first edition in tan boards and unclipped, lightly rubbed dustjacket. Cuban American author's self-published mystery set in Tampa, Florida. More

Cat.No: 268813

Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 1998. Paperback. 244p., author's note, toning to margins else good first Alyson trade paperback edition and first printing in pictorial wraps. Alyson Classics Library. McDowell was best-known as the author of the horror series "Blackwater." Both authors died of AIDS-related illnesses and lived near Boston. Gunn..... More

Cat.No: 292566

New York: Star Dist. 1992. Paperback. 149p., very good first printing PBO in explicit pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Young Stallions YS-166. Undercover cops abducted by Paramilitary forces. Not in Gunn but less mystery than cops-and-soldiers. More

Cat.No: 129464

Willimantic CT: Curbstone Press, 2003. Paperback. Paperback original; 247p., softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch glossy decorated wraps, a fine clean copy with a brief presentation signed at the titlepage. FYI, the inscription is to a San Francisco bookshop, made year of publication while (presumably) on a promotional tour. Arias' protagonist is..... More

Cat.No: 292599

New York: Westbury Publishing Co., 1927. Magazine. 30p., newsprint cover and text, staplebound 9.5x6.5 inch color wraps. Very acidic and fragile, staples badly rusted, but complete and can be handled and read. Pluck and Luck no. 1541. More

Cat.No: 226562

New York: Star Dist. 1977. Paperback. 188p., price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Stud Series SS-1016. Not in Gunn nor in Lubbers-Moore. More

Cat.No: 312511

New York: Signet, 1968. Paperback. 144p., lightly-used first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. The Simon & Schuster is Young 209, Second appearance of flamboyant gay Black NYC cop. Gunn page 124. More

Cat.No: 252330

New York: International Polygonics, 1988. Hardcover. 224p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Humorous murder-mystery in which various people die horrible deaths befitting their professions. A baritone loses his 'voice' a choreographer loses his legs etc. More

Cat.No: 269576

London: Victor Gollancz, 1989. Paperback. 248p., signed by author, wraps with minor shelf wear, paper slightly browned. Biderman was a left activist in San Francisco. Pocket book format. Genetic engineering provides the theme for this lively tale of the San Francisco of the 1980s, set at General Hospital. More

Cat.No: 5924

London: Pluto Press, 1985. Paperback. 184p., wraps slightly shelf worn, pages evenly toned, else very good condition; signed by Biderman on the title page. Pocket book format. Ohio born author, politically active for a time in San Francisco. Crime fiction featuring Nazis, McCarthyism, and an integrated communist shipping crew... More

Cat.No: 283671

London: T.V. Boardman, Ltd., 1962. Magazine. 128p., very good digest size magazine in pictorial wraps. More

Cat.No: 299212

no place: Bouchercon Books, 1973. Hardcover. 136p., foreword, introduction, reviews and columns from the SF Chronicle, index, near-fine limited first edition, numbered #384/500; in buckram blue cloth boards and silver foil titles. More

Cat.No: 273273